Mechanical Engineering Rankings 2006 1 Stanford University 2 California Institute Technology 3 University of California - Berkeley 4 Brown University 5 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 6 Princeton University 7 Northwestern University 8 Johns Hopkins University 9 Cornell University 10 University of California - Santa Barbara 11 University of California - San Diego 12 University of Minnesota 13 University of Texas at Austin 14 University of Michigan 15 University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign 16 Purdue University 17 Pennsylvania State University 18 University of California - Los Angeles 19 Duke University 20 Ohio State University 21 Carnegie Mellon University 22 University of Pennsylvania 23 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 24 Columbia University 25 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 26 Case Western Reserve University 27 Georgia Institute of Technology 28 University of Delaware 29 Arizona State University 30 State University of New York - Stony Brook 31 State University of New York - Buffalo 32 University of Notre Dame 33 University of Maryland College Park 34 University of California - Irvine 35 University of Arizona 36 University of Wisconsin - Madison 37 University of Washington 38 CUNY - Graduate School & University Center 39 Texas A&M University 40 Rutgers State University - New Brunswick 41 North Carolina State University 42 Michigan State University 43 University of California - Davis 44 Washington State University 45 University of Florida 46 Rice University 47 Lehigh University 48 University of Rochester 49 Iowa State University 50 University of Southern California 51 University of Illinois at Chicago 52 University of Massachusetts at Amherst 53 University of Colorado 54 University of Missouri - Rolla 55 Washington University 56 University of Iowa 57 Clemson University 58 University of Houston 59 University of Cincinnati